RUUN NUUR is an independent cinematic practitioner with a diasporic gaze hyper-focused on African and Muslim peoples.
As the co-founder of NO EVIL EYE CINEMA and Documentary Programmer at Vancouver International Film Festival, Nuur flourishes at the intersection of preservation, research, and accessible programming.
She is the Producer of the Field of Vision commissioned documentary short, They Won’t Call It Murder (2022), a poetic exploration of Columbus, Ohio as a container of violence perpetrated by the local police force. The film was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick and played at Sheffield Doc/Fest, AFI Festival, DOCNYC and more.
She’s served on the juries of major film festivals and an invited guest speaker for Doha Film Institute, True/False Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and more. Her essays and interviews have been published in Film Comment, DAZED, Hyperallergic among other editorials. Her work has been profiled in POV Magazine, NYLON, Brooklyn Rail, and scholarly journals.
Nuur has been named the 2022-24 Artist Residency Award Winner at Wexner Center for the Arts and the inaugural recipient of the 2022 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship. She’s currently in production on a documentary feature on the many cycles of socio-political control in Somalia.